Street-car indicating or recording mechanism.



No. 777,054. PATENTED DEG. 6, 1904. V. ANTONY. STREET CAR TNDIGATING 0RRECORDING MECHANISM.

APPLICATION FILED NOV. 2B. 1903.

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PATENTED DEO. 6, 1904.

V. ANTONY.

STREET OAR INDIOATING OR RECORDING MEOHANISM.

APPLICATION FILED NOV.28.1903.

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N0 MODEL.

Patented December 6, 1904.

PATENT OEEIcE.

VICTOR ANTONY, OF HOMESTEAD, PENNSYLVANIA.

STREET-CAR INDICATING OR RECORDING NIECHANISNI.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 777,054, dated December6, 1904. Application filed November 28,1903x Serial No. 182,973. (Nomodel.)

T0 all whom it may concern:

Beit known that LVIc'roR ANTONY, a subject of the Emperor ofAustria-Hungary, residing at Homestead, in the county of Allegheny andState of Pennsylvania, have invented certain new and useful Improvementsin Street-Oar Indicating or Registering Mechanism, of which thefollowing is a specification, reference being had therein to theaccompanying drawings.

This invention relates to certain new and useful improvements inindicating or registering' mechanism for street-cars, the object of theinvention being to provide means for the positive indication orregistration of the number of passengers carried by the car or othervehicle on each trip thereof.

Briefly described, the invention comprises a scale mechanism located inthe platform of the car and on the platform of which scale mechanism thepassenger must step on entering the car. The scale-platform as it isdepressed operates the mechanism to indicate or register the entry of apassenger into the car, and as the scale-platform ascends. to its normalposition the indicator or register is actuated, whereby to be inposition for the succeeding indication or registration. Means isprovided whereby the passengers must enter the car over onescale-platform and pass out of the car at the opposite end over anotherscale-platform, thus giving two indications or registrations for record.

In describing the invention in detail refer ence is had to theaccompanying drawings, forming a part of this application, and whereinlike numerals of reference indicate like parts throughout the severalviews, in which# Figure 1 is a longitudinal horizontal sec tional viewof a street-car equipped with my improvements. Fig. 2 is a verticalcross-sectional view of a part of a car-platform, showing the scalemechanism in side elevation. Fig. 3 is a transverse vertical sectionalview l of the scale mechanism and indicator or register. Eig. 4 is adetached view of a part of the indicating or registering mechanism inside elevation. Fig. 5 is a transverse vertical sectional view taken online 5 of Fig. 4. Fig. 6 is a like view taken on the line 6 6 of Fig. 4.Fig. 7 is a similar view taken on line 7 7 of Fig. 4.

As heretofore stated, it is the purpose, in accordance with myinvention, to have the passengers enter the car or other vehicle fromone end thereof and depart from the car or vehicle at the opposite end.To this end I provide in the car-platforms l 2 openings 3, locateddirectly in front of thel doorways 4, and at the ends of the openings 3provide vertical side walls so that the persons will be required to passaround to the front of the openings 3 in order to enter through thedoorway. In order that the conductor of the ear may conveniently enterthe latter at any time without passing' through the doorways 4, lprovide auxiliary doorways 6, which are at each end of the ear. Iprovide an indicating mechanism at each end of the car, though it willbe evident that at the discharge end of the car this indicating orregistering` mechanism may be locked against actuation in any desirablemanner. The provision of the mechanism at each end,however, gives adouble indication or registration where desired and also provides forthe running of the car with either end forward. This indicating orregistering mechanism is illustrated in Figs. l to 7, inclusive, andcoinprises a scale-platform 7, which rests normally in thc opening 3 ofthe car-platforms and has two downwardly-extending standards 8, whichrest at their lower ends on springs 9, arranged in guides or sockets IO,carried on the bottom of the casing 11, the latter being suitablysecured to the supporting-walls 19., attached to the car-platform. Thestandards 8 are connected together by cross-bar 14, which cross-barcarries an arm 15, projecting through a slot 16 in one of the side wallsof the casing 1l and provided on its outer end with a pointer 17, thatoperates in front of the scale i8, provided on the slotted side face orwall of the casing Il adjacent to the slot 16. The crossbar I4 alsocarries on the side thereof opposite to arm l5 a socket or holder 19, inwhich is placed a pencil or other marker 20, backed by a spring 21 inthe socket or holder 19. Supported by brackets 22 from the bottom of thebox or casing ll is a roller 23, on which is mounted a roll of paper 24,the one end of IOO this roll of paper being carried up through the slot25, provided therefor in the bottom of the casing 1l over the roller 26near the upper end of the casing, and connected to a roller 27, carriedin brackets 28 on the side wall of the casing 11 near its upper end.rlhe paper strip engages below the roller 26 a plate 29, carried by theinner face of the casing in order to prevent the paper moving' away fromthe pencil or other marker 20. 30, which carries roller 27, is looselymounted a spring-drum 31, the spring 32 of which has its one endconnected to shaft 30 and its other end connected to the drum. Attachedto the drum is one end of a tape or cord 32, which is passed arround theroller 33, arrang'ed in the slot 34 in the side wall of the casingaround the roller 35, carried by the casing, and then upwardly and hasits end attached to the holder 19. Keyed on the shaft 30 adjacent to thespring-drum 31 is a ratchet 36, which is engaged by a pawl 37, carriedby the springdrum 3l, and on said shaft 30, at the opposite end of theroll 27, is a ratchet 38, which is engaged by the pawl 39, carried bythe other of said brackets 28.

The operation of this mechanism is as follows: A passenger entering onplatform 1 steps on the scale-platform 7, depressing' the same, movingstandards 8 downwardly and causing' the pencil or marker 2O to mark onthe paper strip 24, the length of the mark corresponding to the weig'htindicated on scale 18. The spring 21 in the holder 19 is of suchstrength and is of such length and the pencil is also of such leng'th asthat the spring' when expanded will force the pencil outwardly just farenoug'h to mark firmly on the paper when the pencil is opposite theplate 29, the pencil when it is above the plate either not marking thestrip of paper at all, as the paper will be without a firm backing atthis point, or else making such a light mark as to be negligible. As thepencil or marker descends the tape or cord 32 is caused to be wound onits spring-drum 31, this drum being loosely mounted on the shaft 30, andas the passenger steps off scale-platform 7 and the latter rises,carrying the pencil or marker therewith, the pawl 37 will eng'age theratchet-wheel 36 and rotate the shaft 30, whereby the paper strip 24 iswound on drum 27 and held againstumvinding by pawl 39 engaging' ratchet38, the length of the mark made on the paper strip, it will be observed,

l i l l depending upon the weight of the passenger on sc: le-platform 7,the pencil making a firm solid line only while it is travelingdownwardly over the part of the paper which is stretched in front of theplate 29, the mark made by the pencil on the paper strip above the upperend of the plate being' by reason of the paper strip having no backingat that l point so light as to be readily distinguish- Un the shaft ablefrom the mark made bythe pencil on that portion of the paper over theplate 29.

'1t will be observed that various slight chang'es may be made in thedetails of construction without departing from the general spirit of myinvention.

Having' fully described my invention, what l claim as new, and desire tosecure by Letters Patent, is

1. In combination with a car-platform, provided with an opening, avertically-movable platform mounted in said opening', a casing'suspended underneath the car-platform, standards extending into saidcasing, with the vertically-movable platform on their upper ends, across-bar carried by the standards, and provided with a holder, a markersecured in the holder` an arm carried by the cross-bar and working in avertical slot provided therefor in the front of the casing, a pointercarried by said arm to coact with a scale on the front of the casing, amarker-plate secured to the inner face of the casing, a strip engagingthe markerplate and engaged by the marker, rolls on which said strip iswound and unwound, and means for winding' said strip, substantially asdescribed.

2. In a street-car indicating' and recording mechanism, the combinationwith a car-platform having' an opening therein of recording mechanisi'nand indicating' mechanism, embodying a casing having' a scale on the.front thereof, a pointer coacting with the scale, a vertically moving'platform located in the opening' in the car-platform and connected toand adapted to move the pointer, a strip of paper, means operable by themovement of the platform for feeding the paper, and a markingnpencilmovable by the platform to mark said paper.

ln testimony whereof I afIiX my signature in the presence of twowitnesses.

VICTOR ANTONY. lVitnesses:

A. M. WYILsoN, E. E. POTTER.

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